Firefighters battled a blaze at the Greater Nazarene Baptist Church in the 1900 block of Cedar Street but were unable to save the structure. Rev. Isaac Shoulders said he was at the church around 1:30 p.m. and everything was fine.

"I just hope and pray this wasn't done deliberately because we didn't have any services here since Sunday, and there was no electric on other than normal electricity," he said.

The church was built in the early 1950s. Shoulders isn't sure what the congregation will do.